I was gonna say the same thing. Most people want 3G phones so they can be anywhere in the world (granted there's a signal) and surf the net. Need directions? hop online.. looking for a restaurant? hop online. Need to download the soundtrack from the movie you just saw and can't wait to get home? hop online. What I would really love is to connect my phone to a headunit in my car so I can listen to the thousands of internet streams. One in particular is there's a dance radio station that used to be in chicago, and it's now in arizona: http://www.energy98stl.com/listenlive.ht ml I'd be nice to be able to listen to it in my car as if I'm in arizona. This could possibly make XM and Sirrus radio obsolete, depending on how reliable the connection is with 3G.
Geez, can't you post the link instead of us having to copy+paste?
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2F srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030189597%22.PGN R.&OS=DN/20030189597&RS=DN/20030189597
I agree. About the only thing that would get me back into an arcade is to play something I can't play at home. Seems that virtual reality may not make a decent comeback for another 5 years, but that will likely be the next big thing in arcades, if arcades even exist by then. The only other thing making a profit out there is either bar games (golden tee golf), an occasional new pinball machine by STern, or a LAN computer place that rents out fast computers with hi-speed internet.
The updated versions were PC based, but I believe the ORIGINAL battletech hardware was amiga based once again (specifically amiga 2000) because a PC couldn't render something like that back when it was released.
I was impressed when I played it way back then. Even though the graphics were crude, the immersion made you feel sort of like you were in another world. The steel cable attached to your back was clunky, and it fixated you so you couldn't turn 360. I do remember some corporate function that had some experimental software where it took you through a few worlds (a rat on a floor, hang gliding, etc.) I would love to see VR make a comeback. Looking at the type of graphics of today, if we had VR controls it would be so much fun.
what 3-d? I don't see any quicktime VR plugin.. I don't see any realtime model with a java plugin.. What a rip off, it's just another picture of a red rock. My god, how long are they going to drag this thing out!
OH god, I remember back to the future on NES now. My god that was a horrible game. It reminded me of some horrible version of 'bomb catcher' for atari 2600. You like skated through town (street scrolled down) and you avoided things like bees and manholes. It hardly even tied in with the movie, yet I played it because I liked the movie so much. I finally gave up because I could never get past the first level. I didn't want to see deloreans that badly!
I owned that game,and actually played till I won. I guess I actually liked it at the time because it was a movie tie-in, but now being older I know it sucked. What do kids know?
Imagine the other kids mocking you because your gran turismo track times suck
"haha! you only got around 3 laps in 10 minutes. We're all in shape so we use our controller, so we do it in 6 minutes!"
If you want some ambient light while keeping it dark at the same time (so there isn't glare on the screens), try using blacklights. You can actually buy them in standard 48" fluorescent sizes (so you can use regular lighting fixtures). These provide quite a bit of light, though it may cause eye strain after a couple hours. Might want to have normal light on other half (where the snacks are), which will only encourage food consumption (ching ching).
Sampo isn't the only divx player. I bought a lite-on for $130 plus $30 rebate. Lite-on is known for quality. The only drawback is that it's very specific on the type of divx (has to be mpeg-4), haven't gotten a format that it recoginizes yet, but other people have done just fine.
I haven't tested it yet, but V.92 is supposed to offer 60% more compression over V.90.. Many ISP's don't support it (not enough interest to upgrade equipment), however I did find one that incredibly cheap ($6/month!) and I'm connecting just fine without dropped calls. www.access4less.net
And no, I don't work for them, just passing along some good information.
Yes! what about those hacks for digital cameras? Apparently digital cameras actually have fairly good cpu's in them. I saw a site that not only supported MAME, but a doom port (woo hoo, now I can take pictures of my vacation and frag the baddies with one device!)
http://digita.mame.net/
I don't think virtual reality ever got started either. There used to be those arcade games (which I think you can still see at dave n busters) where you're basically in a very polygonish area shooting at each other, with some teradactyl flying above (looks like the music video of money for nothing). The control sucked because the tracking was jerky, and when you spun around, it would jam, and you'd be unable to move with a metal wire hanging out of your back. I think if someone figures out a less clunky interface, and can make it cheap, VR could take off big time. Think about how realistc worlds are on playstation 2. Now imagine a nice VR interface, you would be quite immersed in that world (preferrably wrap around LCD instead of 2 tiny LCD flat screens).
Yeah, I'd have to say there's a long long list of problems with this idea. It's a neat concept (balanced by a computer with sensors), but it's just not ready for today's world. Quite frankly I'd be more impressed with a bicycle like device that could fold down to the size of a backpack (tiny wheels).. People truly are getting lazy, it's bad enough we drive a mile down the road to the local 7-11, now we need a device to replace walking? and then pay some more to hop on a machine to simulate walking up stairs? What has mankind turned into? I hope his company folds and we start seeing segways on ebay for $100, and I probably still wouldn't buy one
I was gonna say.. Why is NY complaining? chicagoland area has been doing it for a year now in 847 area code! Really messed up my dial-up connection, and yeah.. the caller ID plus all my stored phone numbers in my phones all got screwed up. Didn't make any sense at the time, but I'm sorta used to it now.
Think of the possibilities.. CPU power equivalent of the human brain. Screw AI, I want a photo-realistic VR envoirnment (insert sick ideas now). I'm talking like the movie "the lawnmower man", except really really real. 3-d artists get ready to get a job recreating a model of pamela anderson, I have a feeling that IBM has other goals in mind. Of course you realize that by the year 2006 they'll have a comparable to that for $200 on pricewatch (I wait for technology)
yeah, this sorta happens to me already. I had an earpiece on, and I was on the phone with the wife, and stopped by a farm stand for some fresh vegtables so she could tell me what she wanted. I go "they've got cucumbers.. how many cucumbers should I get?" and the farmer got this confused look on his face, paused (meanwhile my wife is telling me three" and the farmer goes "wha.. why are you asking me how many you want?" and I go "Oh not you, I'm on the phone".
This sounds like it's from the movie zoolander. Remember that jamacian hair DJ dude that kept following zoolander? He sticks his pinky up to his mouth, and his thumb towards his ear, and he's talking "thought you might want to know, zoolander is on the prowl"
forget about unsigned artists, I'm talking about stuff you heard when you were a kid that you simply can't buy anywhere, but nice users out there either have a dubbed tape, or perhaps a rare CD, and have shared this song with others. I know there's been a file songs I know I can't just go buy at cdnow.com. If the record companies don't want to release it, then i guess I'll have to steal it:)
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I was gonna say the same thing. Most people want 3G phones so they can be anywhere in the world (granted there's a signal) and surf the net. Need directions? hop online.. looking for a restaurant? hop online. Need to download the soundtrack from the movie you just saw and can't wait to get home? hop online. What I would really love is to connect my phone to a headunit in my car so I can listen to the thousands of internet streams. One in particular is there's a dance radio station that used to be in chicago, and it's now in arizona:t ml
http://www.energy98stl.com/listenlive.h
I'd be nice to be able to listen to it in my car as if I'm in arizona. This could possibly make XM and Sirrus radio obsolete, depending on how reliable the connection is with 3G.
Geez, can't you post the link instead of us having to copy+paste? http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2F srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220030189597%22.PGN R.&OS=DN/20030189597&RS=DN/20030189597
I agree. About the only thing that would get me back into an arcade is to play something I can't play at home. Seems that virtual reality may not make a decent comeback for another 5 years, but that will likely be the next big thing in arcades, if arcades even exist by then. The only other thing making a profit out there is either bar games (golden tee golf), an occasional new pinball machine by STern, or a LAN computer place that rents out fast computers with hi-speed internet.
The updated versions were PC based, but I believe the ORIGINAL battletech hardware was amiga based once again (specifically amiga 2000) because a PC couldn't render something like that back when it was released.
I was impressed when I played it way back then. Even though the graphics were crude, the immersion made you feel sort of like you were in another world. The steel cable attached to your back was clunky, and it fixated you so you couldn't turn 360. I do remember some corporate function that had some experimental software where it took you through a few worlds (a rat on a floor, hang gliding, etc.) I would love to see VR make a comeback. Looking at the type of graphics of today, if we had VR controls it would be so much fun.
what 3-d? I don't see any quicktime VR plugin.. I don't see any realtime model with a java plugin.. What a rip off, it's just another picture of a red rock. My god, how long are they going to drag this thing out!
OH god, I remember back to the future on NES now. My god that was a horrible game. It reminded me of some horrible version of 'bomb catcher' for atari 2600. You like skated through town (street scrolled down) and you avoided things like bees and manholes. It hardly even tied in with the movie, yet I played it because I liked the movie so much. I finally gave up because I could never get past the first level. I didn't want to see deloreans that badly!
I owned that game,and actually played till I won. I guess I actually liked it at the time because it was a movie tie-in, but now being older I know it sucked. What do kids know?
aww.. I actually sorta liked night trap, but then again I was a h0rny kid that just played it to watch girls running around scared inside a house.
Imagine the other kids mocking you because your gran turismo track times suck "haha! you only got around 3 laps in 10 minutes. We're all in shape so we use our controller, so we do it in 6 minutes!"
If you want some ambient light while keeping it dark at the same time (so there isn't glare on the screens), try using blacklights. You can actually buy them in standard 48" fluorescent sizes (so you can use regular lighting fixtures). These provide quite a bit of light, though it may cause eye strain after a couple hours. Might want to have normal light on other half (where the snacks are), which will only encourage food consumption (ching ching).
Sampo isn't the only divx player. I bought a lite-on for $130 plus $30 rebate. Lite-on is known for quality. The only drawback is that it's very specific on the type of divx (has to be mpeg-4), haven't gotten a format that it recoginizes yet, but other people have done just fine.
well.. won't be long before we see lightsabers. Guess we're living in the star wars prequal :)
I haven't tested it yet, but V.92 is supposed to offer 60% more compression over V.90.. Many ISP's don't support it (not enough interest to upgrade equipment), however I did find one that incredibly cheap ($6/month!) and I'm connecting just fine without dropped calls. www.access4less.net And no, I don't work for them, just passing along some good information.
Yes! what about those hacks for digital cameras? Apparently digital cameras actually have fairly good cpu's in them. I saw a site that not only supported MAME, but a doom port (woo hoo, now I can take pictures of my vacation and frag the baddies with one device!) http://digita.mame.net/
I don't think virtual reality ever got started either. There used to be those arcade games (which I think you can still see at dave n busters) where you're basically in a very polygonish area shooting at each other, with some teradactyl flying above (looks like the music video of money for nothing). The control sucked because the tracking was jerky, and when you spun around, it would jam, and you'd be unable to move with a metal wire hanging out of your back. I think if someone figures out a less clunky interface, and can make it cheap, VR could take off big time. Think about how realistc worlds are on playstation 2. Now imagine a nice VR interface, you would be quite immersed in that world (preferrably wrap around LCD instead of 2 tiny LCD flat screens).
Yeah, I'd have to say there's a long long list of problems with this idea. It's a neat concept (balanced by a computer with sensors), but it's just not ready for today's world. Quite frankly I'd be more impressed with a bicycle like device that could fold down to the size of a backpack (tiny wheels).. People truly are getting lazy, it's bad enough we drive a mile down the road to the local 7-11, now we need a device to replace walking? and then pay some more to hop on a machine to simulate walking up stairs? What has mankind turned into? I hope his company folds and we start seeing segways on ebay for $100, and I probably still wouldn't buy one
I was gonna say.. Why is NY complaining? chicagoland area has been doing it for a year now in 847 area code! Really messed up my dial-up connection, and yeah.. the caller ID plus all my stored phone numbers in my phones all got screwed up. Didn't make any sense at the time, but I'm sorta used to it now.
Think of the possibilities.. CPU power equivalent of the human brain. Screw AI, I want a photo-realistic VR envoirnment (insert sick ideas now). I'm talking like the movie "the lawnmower man", except really really real. 3-d artists get ready to get a job recreating a model of pamela anderson, I have a feeling that IBM has other goals in mind. Of course you realize that by the year 2006 they'll have a comparable to that for $200 on pricewatch (I wait for technology)
yeah, this sorta happens to me already. I had an earpiece on, and I was on the phone with the wife, and stopped by a farm stand for some fresh vegtables so she could tell me what she wanted. I go "they've got cucumbers.. how many cucumbers should I get?" and the farmer got this confused look on his face, paused (meanwhile my wife is telling me three" and the farmer goes "wha.. why are you asking me how many you want?" and I go "Oh not you, I'm on the phone".
This sounds like it's from the movie zoolander. Remember that jamacian hair DJ dude that kept following zoolander? He sticks his pinky up to his mouth, and his thumb towards his ear, and he's talking "thought you might want to know, zoolander is on the prowl"
forget about unsigned artists, I'm talking about stuff you heard when you were a kid that you simply can't buy anywhere, but nice users out there either have a dubbed tape, or perhaps a rare CD, and have shared this song with others. I know there's been a file songs I know I can't just go buy at cdnow.com. If the record companies don't want to release it, then i guess I'll have to steal it :)